Example sentences of "[vb pp] them [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She handed two packets and a wafer to the boy , who had finished wiping the mattresses down and had leant them up against the wall to dry . |
| 2 | He had joined them out of the press in the midst of a guard of taciturn Merkut troopers who were economical in their employment of the brute force necessary to clear their master 's path . |
| 3 | From the beginning of their history , the amphibians were hunters , preying on the worms , insects and other invertebrates that had preceded them on to the land . |
| 4 | To the community at Canterbury he was a saintly but somewhat ineffective archbishop , who had let them down in the matter of the primacy of their church . |
| 5 | Now the opposing argument to that is that if you create a special environment during the educational phase of a child 's life , then what happens after that for his I mean how far have you then separated them off from the sort of life that they will have to lead thereafter . |
| 6 | And Jim , when he comes in , they 're both , they 're both all , I 've pr priced them up on the top and er |
| 7 | No matter what Joe 's and Tamar 's earlier lives had been , both were respectably married now and their father had accepted them back into the fold . |
| 8 | In reminding himself that his responsibilities were for the President , he recalled the way that Mariana had looked at the old man that first day when he had met them out on the dock , the President casting for bonefish . |
| 9 | ‘ I remember one who was literally hanging on by his fingertips when we arrived , but we 've always got them up in the end . ’ |
| 10 | How else could he have got them out of the keep ? |
| 11 | He had sneaked himself into the crowd of humans as the huge woman had herded them over from the train . |
| 12 | This was never more threatened from the right than in the years before 1914 and a leader who had respected constitutional niceties at that time would have driven them out of the system where they could have been far more dangerous . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've brought them up in the fear of the Lord . ’ |
| 14 | Money has driven them deeper into the planet , money has brought them down in the world … |
| 15 | It was much smaller than the one that had brought them out of the Store , but still quite big enough . |
| 16 | I fear not , for indeed ‘ they hearkened not unto Moses ’ , they murmured against him , and against Aaron , which is to say , they murmured against the Lord , for was it not the Lord Himself , speaking and working in Moses , who had brought them out from the land of Egypt ? ’ |
| 17 | Had they literally cut them out of the film ? |
| 18 | ‘ The next minute he 'd picked them both up and thrown them out of the window . ’ |
| 19 | The model represented more than Dr. Lorrimer who had been unkind to her and William , who had practically thrown them out of the laboratory . |
| 20 | She had , on seeing those exquisite evening dresses , thrown them down through the hatch , and scrambled after them . |
| 21 | We think that these apartments are a bit of a find , and so are pleased to have them that we 've taken them up throughout the summer on an exclusive basis . |
| 22 | They had visited the fifteenth-century pavilion , which had taken them back to the world of 1492 and immersed them in an era that led up to the discovery of America . |
| 23 | He was glad that he did n't throw out the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since he had taken them out of the suitcase on top of the wardrobe and displayed them in his own room as if they had come in with the morning post . |
| 24 | On the other hand , it can create a system through which goals may be achieved , having taken them out of the realm of pure ideology . |
| 25 | Oh did leave them in there perhaps I 've put them up on the shelf . |
| 26 | Yeah , he has n't put them up since the budget |
| 27 | No I 've not long put them out on the line . |
| 28 | The florist came up earlier but she was asleep , and he did n't even come into the room , just put his head round the door and left her some flowers ; the night nurse has put them out in the corridor . |
| 29 | The young , untrained dog must have chased them up to the edge of the pit , where they fell to their death . |
| 30 | They must have chased them out of the yard and made sure they took off in all directions . |